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Re:I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now by jen20 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:07PM (#29916748)
This was (and I assume nothing has changed) an endemic problem in the UK, especially for contractors.

One of the most accurate descriptions I’ve ever read about it is “Don’t feed the beast - the great tech recruiter infestation” [1 - though an archive since the original has been taken down].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...

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Re:I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now by W0lf on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:54AM (#29918345)
I'm a freelancing software consultant from Germany that gets increasingly spammed from UK recruiters and always wondered what the case is here. Your linked article pretty much nails it though. That being said things are only slightly different here in Germany, albeit not too much.
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Re:I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now by isoprophlex on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:45AM (#29917575)
This is beautiful. Shithead is what would have happened if Terry Pratchett wrote a novel about recruiters.
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